00:00Here's Bill Waddell joins us in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
00:04Bill, how much ice are they dealing with down there?
00:08Hey, Ari, Bernie, good morning to you.
00:10Yeah, about an inch of ice and sleet.
00:14You can see it's just a slushy mess out here left behind along the southern side of this winter storm.
00:20Temperature-wise, it's not too bad, but the concern is going to be, of course,
00:25the overnight temperatures dipping below freezing at times.
00:28And you can see here, we're dealing with some wind as well.
00:31And road crews haven't made it yet to all of the side streets.
00:34So definitely some messy areas out here.
00:36Take a look at the view from above.
00:38This is actually quite beautiful.
00:40Looking at Greenville, South Carolina, looking like a pretty picture postcard today.
00:46Many businesses downtown, though, they are shut down for the second day in a row here.
00:51And the streets downtown looking more like a ghost town.
00:55At least the roads are clear and the plow trucks are able to get through there.
00:57Now, road crews have been working around the clock.
01:00They've been plowing, salting, and spraying brine solution on the roads and the highways.
01:06The concern moving forward at this point is ice melting later today could lead to more icy spots
01:13and hazardous travel conditions tonight and early tomorrow morning as those temperatures drop below freezing.
01:19And we've been seeing utility crews from the Midwest and the Northeast, really all over the place,
01:26staged here in South Carolina, ready to help restore power after the storm.
01:31Now, many of the trucks were left coated in an icy glaze during that storm yesterday afternoon.
01:37Some of these crews were hearing they may be diverted out of South Carolina
01:41and heading to the hardest-hit areas with the widespread power outages in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
01:48So, again, here, you know, typically after a winter storm, when they're shoveling, everybody's out doing it together.
01:55Here, I'm not seeing much shoveling, but you hear it before you see it because it is so noisy
02:00trying to crunch through this ice on the ground.
02:03And, again, the concern, not just today and tonight, but over the next few days in the afternoon,
02:08temperatures will be rising above freezing.
02:11And then, of course, you have that freeze-fall cycle.
02:14So, families here, they've got some cleaning up, some digging out to do.
02:17And I can tell you, in some of the neighborhoods we were in earlier with those steep hills,
02:21treacherous conditions for a lot of these people who do not have those four-wheel drive or all-wheel drive vehicles.
02:27So, in some of those really hilly spots, they may be waiting for the plow trucks and stuck at home for another day or so.
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